Scarborough Confesses: ‘Perhaps We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About’ On The Stimulus

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/10/scarborough-stimulus-confession/

In recent weeks, media debate surrounding the economic recovery package has turned against President Obama’s legislation, with numerous allegations that Obama is losing the message wars in the eyes of the public:

– Charlie Gibson: And as you know, there’s a lot of people in the public, a lot of members of Congress who think this is pork-stuffed and that it really doesn’t stimulate. .

– Stuart Varney: The stimulus package, really has lost a great deal of public support, in part because it has not been presented honestly.

– Tom Brokaw: “All the polling, including what you just showed us, indicates that the American public may have some real reservations about this stimulus plan.

– Bill O’Reilly: “The majority of Americans are now opposed to spending a trillion dollars on social engineering and other liberal causes.”

But a Gallup poll released yesterday revealed that 67 percent approve of Obama’s handling of the recovery bill. Gallup also observed that the public desires a progressive stimulus package that is rooted in heavy government investment.

As ThinkProgress has noted, MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew is helping lead the charge against Obama’s handling of the recovery package. But presented with the Gallup poll on the show this morning, Joe Scarborough quickly backtracked, admitting, “

erhaps we overanalyzed it, and we don’t know what we’re talking about”:

SCARBOROUGH: Chuck, it has been a difficult process. We’ve been very critical of the process. It seems sloppy. It seems that the White House has been off their game. … And then we see a poll like the Gallup Poll that came out yesterday that makes me think that perhaps we overanalyzed it, and we don’t know what we’re talking about. … Sixty-seven percent of Americans approve of Barack Obama’s handling of the economy.

“I think it’s high fifties at least. Oh. Sixty-seven,” said a surprised Mika Brzeznski. Watch it (via TPM):

http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/scarborough_on_stimulus_packag.php

“This is a steaming pile of garbage,” declared Scarborough last week, calling the bill “pure straight socialism.” “There’s a lot of welfare in there. There’s a lot of spending. It’s not stimulus,” Brzezinski added. Indeed, they don’t seem to know much.

– Michael Wilson

[rucky]

1. Newsrooms used to have researchers and fact-checkers and whatnot

back in the day.

[lynnertic]

5. Now they have google

and still can't get it right.

[aquamarina]

2. "We don't know what we're talking about" - about sums up the M$M quite nicely.

[KansDem]

3. Yeah, but they're still pulling their paychecks...

I don't know about the M$M, but if I didn't know what I was talking about at my job, I wouldn't last long...

[Baikonour]

4. Mika fucking INFURIATES ME.

I can almost live with Joe, because he's just your typical spineless right wing hack. But Mika is so beyond clueless and just plain stupid, it boggles the mind. How someone so vapid can be featured so prominently on a news network is beyond me.

[RandySF]

8. Mika thought Palin won the VP debate.

[K Gardner]

6. Meeka and Hoe have spent too much time in the sack, not enough time in the library.

[Bolo Boffin]

7. "We've been twying and twying to make the public think it's bad and they're not listening to us."

"Maybe we should start listening to them!"

Brilliant, Scarborough. Catching up is progress.

[Ikonoklast]

9. Translation: The Propaganda Effort Has Failed.

The American People are wise to the professional Republic poop flingers, and are starting to refuse to believe the lies they use to talk down any public opinion of progress made by Democrats.

The wheel is turning.
Demographics are against the Republic party.
Time is not their friend.
This just may be their Waterloo.